From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Kalogirou Subject: Re: ELKS porting to DSP Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:03:01 +0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1064678581.3184.4.camel@cool> References: <20030927054415.0B01272A0@sitemail.everyone.net> <006401c38505$27c8af20$0100a8c0@who5> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <006401c38505$27c8af20$0100a8c0@who5> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gregg C Levine Cc: srinivasa.srungaram@wipro.com, Linux-8086 > Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine > I remember. And I also remember that the group told your colleage that ELKS > was, (still is), an x86 targeted OS. That unlike the actual Linux Kernel, it > wasn't portable. Oh it could be installed on a Psion, but not here. This DSP > does not use the x86 instruction set. Your ideas while lofty and good, don't > work. It would require a major rewrite of the entire kernel, and that's not > poissible, because it is an x86 targeted one. Your better off, investigating > my earlier advice, or even trying to port native Linux to it. Some related > processors are targets. Major rewrite of the kernel? I'm not familiar with the DSP chip. But major rewrite is probably never required. The rewrite will take place in the assembly parts of the kernel and possibly in the memory manager of the kernel. -- Harry Kalogirou